Europe is trying to patch migration with duct tape
Europe's approach to migration is fragmented, relying on uncoordinated measures instead of a cohesive strategy.
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Europe hosts more immigrants than any other region of the world
United Nations figures showed the number of foreign-born residents in Europe had nearly doubled since 1990, with a handful of countries accounting for most of the…
Illegal immigration into Spain rises as the rest of the EU records sharp falls
The western Mediterranean is the only major route into the European Union still growing, and the official count leaves out the invasion of Ceuta in July.
Portugal’s ruling parties move to charge non-resident foreigners for healthcare
A bill from the two parties backing Prime Minister Luís Montenegro would oblige illegal migrants and non-residents to pay for treatment, with an exception for emergencies.
Firefighters find migrant camp in tunnels under Ceuta university campus
Residents had suspected for weeks that people who entered during the July invasion were hiding underground as numbers on the city's beaches kept rising.
Berlin crime boss appears at Die Linke election party after party’s city-wide win
Issa Remmo was “pleased about Die Linke,” that he felt supported by a German party for the first time.
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Swedish deadlock lays bare a voting divide spreading across Europe
Statistics Sweden put the two blocs level among voters of Swedish background and 37 percentage points apart among voters of foreign background.
Swedish opposition takes narrow lead as Sweden Democrats lose ground
Magdalena Andersson's bloc is three seats ahead in the preliminary count, though ballots cast abroad and tallied from September 16 could still overturn it.
UK and Belgium sign first post-Brexit police pact to target Channel smugglers
Belgian officers would be allowed to carry weapons on some Eurostar trains and join the UK-France intelligence cell in northern France under the deal.
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Bardella and Farage put returns in writing while their critics change the subject
The two leaders committed a future French government to taking back migrants intercepted in British waters, and almost every rival party in France reached for the…
Burnham and Macron now want Channel deterrence scaled up across Europe
Both governments have promised tougher action before, and French police still cannot stop a dinghy once it is afloat.
Channel gangs turn to ‘mega dinghies’ as crackdown dries up small boat supply
Once-rival criminal networks are pooling migrants onto single vessels after police interceptions left the smugglers short of inflatable boats
Brussels wants more answers from Madrid before reinforcing Frontex in Ceuta
The Commission refuses to discuss the leaked police report and calls Morocco a strategic partner on migration.
Portugal’s president enacts faster expulsion of illegal immigrants after Chega abstention
The Constitutional Court cleared the text days earlier after the president queried detention limits and safeguards for children.
Foreign suspects in German sex offence cases more than double since 2000
A German Government reply to a nationalist MP records a 148.2 per cent rise over 25 years, with suspects in threat offences up 231.5 per cent
Muslim voters hand Sweden’s left-wing parties a landslide as Government support collapses
Previously unpublished Novus figures put combined backing for the Social Democrats, the Left Party and the Greens at 85 per cent among Muslim respondents, against…
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Denial is Europe’s real emergency
Europe faces a dire threat of 'civilisational erasure' as it grapples with immigration issues and economic stagnation, highlighting a profound reluctance to confront…
National emergency: Gun violence in Brussels outpaces the institutions meant to contain it
Federal and regional authorities agreed on 40 extra police officers, 20 mobile cameras and an additional infantry platoon at a security council.
Muslims make up nearly one in five prisoners in England and Wales, almost three times their population share
Shadow justice secretary Nick Timothy has published the figures alongside a demand for an inquiry into alleged forced conversions behind bars.
Nearly three-quarters of Britons oppose entry for men from countries where women lack equal rights
Opposition ran at close to six to one in polling commissioned by the Women's Policy Centre.
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Ireland moves to tighten citizenship after five years above 100,000 arrivals
Some 110,600 people came to the State in the 12 months to April 2026, and 24,059 became Irish citizens in 2024, the highest annual figure in a decade.
Undercover reporter films Channel people smugglers at work
Christian Drogan paid €1,400 for a place on a dinghy and says four traffickers stepped off mid-crossing onto a French patrol boat
Mohammed VI pardons 634 as Moroccan offender numbers increase in Europe
The King used a religious holiday to release extremism convicts by decree, days after tens of thousands crossed into Ceuta
More than four in five North African asylum seekers in Switzerland face crime accusations
Justice Minister Beat Jans has promised faster detention and shorter removal deadlines after the internal figures reached the public.
Ceuta emergency calls rise tenfold to 200 a day after invasion
Officers in the city were working shifts of up to 16 hours and sleeping in army barracks, the union said.
Europe’s next migration crisis will come from Sudan
Europe faces an escalating migration crisis, with 15 million displaced Sudanese migrants projected by 2026.
Migrant camps displace Ceuta’s cat colonies as carers search for missing animals
Volunteers say feeding sites beside the desalination plant and in several outlying neighbourhoods have emptied since the July 30 crossing.
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How the Danish migration model works, from the border to the doorstep
Denmark built its migration system on four pillars over a decade, and reduced asylum approvals to the lowest level in 40 years.
Brussels urges immediate return of Ceuta’s unaccompanied minors to Morocco
The European Commission said EU law covered the removal of children as well as adults, while it welcomed Madrid's pledge that nobody would be moved to the Spanish…
Britain’s new justice secretary maintains legal fight to block UK conviction data by nationality
Alex Norris has kept in place an appeal launched by his predecessor against an order to publish seven years of figures.